Nevil Shute Quotes

If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

Nevil Shute

• Character
• Decision
• Habit
• Danger

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• If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Decision
  • Process
  • Will

• Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Character
  • Audience
  • Innocent

• TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Decision
  • Actor
  • Films

• The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Character
  • Challenges
  • Test

• I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Character
  • Theatre
  • Transformation

• Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Work
  • Character
  • Fun

• I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Time
  • Business
  • Best

• There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that. I mean, not everyone's likable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Character
  • Think
  • Helpful

• The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Different
  • Character
  • Moral

• Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Me
  • Attention

• So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Character
  • Moral

• For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Chance

• My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Up
  • Character
  • Challenge

• A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Life
  • Character
  • Myself

• Every job I've done so far, every character has been completely different, and that's really important to me because I don't want to fall into a stereotypical box. Of course, every actor has their box, and you have to respect and play for it, but I do love challenging myself.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Different
  • Important
  • Done

• I certainly would not vote against a particular judge already in office because of a decision in a case. You may not agree with a judge's decision, but the judge must act within the law.

  

  Charles T. Canady
  • May
  • Law
  • Decision

• When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Author

• Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert.

  

  John Hench
  • People
  • Time

• I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

  

  Steve Perry
  • Singing
  • Judge

• A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • World
  • Job
  • Vision

• Steaks every day for me. Steaks for breakfast. Steaks for lunch. Steaks for brunch. Grass-fed, massaged beef. All day long.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • Long
  • Breakfast

• I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!

  

  Catherine Jinks
  • Blow
  • Poison
  • Hackers

• If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

  

  Nevil Shute
  • Character
  • Decision
  • Habit